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There’s a new dual-format internal DVD burner from Memorex that can record DVDs in both of the competing DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW formats, as well as CD-R and CD-RW. Read
We can barely keep track of what the hell is going on with this, but apparently Dell is shipping a fix for its Axim X5 Pocket PCs running the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system. It turned out that Axim X5’s with the new version of the OS ran more slowly than they had under…
Nokia’s lawyers forced us to remove all mention and photos of the phone described in this post. Read [Via MobileTracker]
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: Photos of Magink displays World’s thinnest camcorder Sony’s 500GB digital video recorder The Automatic Sports Video Analyzer Thief steals GPS tracking device More details and some pics of Dell’s Axim X3 Pocket PC First look at the ZVUE! personal video…
Nokia’s new N-Gage gamephone, which is set to come out October 7th, has just about the worst buzz we’ve seen for any gadget that hasn’t actually gone on sale yet; it seems like practically everyone has already decided that it’s going to bomb. Despite that, or perhaps desperate to counter the bad word of mouth…
Despite being a rabid technophile and having a somewhere around 60GB of MP3s, we still have a soft spot for vinyl, and when it comes to deejaying, prefer spinning actual records over CDs. We have to concede, though, that digital turntables keep getting better each year, with the most promising new entry being the SL-DZ1200…
Is Dell coming out with a line of LCD televisions? They will neither confirm nor deny this, PC World is reporting that they’re talking to manufacturers in South Korea and Taiwan about building a line of LCD TVs, though there are no details how big they’d be or what they might potentially cost. Either way,…
A couple of new digital photo printers from Olympus that use dye-sublimation rather than inkjet technology. How it works is a bit complicated, but basically dye-sublimation makes it possible for colors to more fully permeate photo paper than they can with an inkjet printer. Consequently, photographs printed this way usually look a lot better than…
Following Casio’s lead, which just upped its superslim Exilim EX-Z3 digital camera from three to four megapixels, Pentax has bumped up the resolution of its Optio S (which uses the same lens and imaging sensor as the Exilim), to four megapixels. Other than the increase in megapixels, the Optios S4 is exactly the same as…
Hot on the heels of Philips’ foray into home wireless networking gear, Gateway is coming out with its own line of wireless equipment, an 802.11b USB adapter, an 802.11g wireless PCI adapter for a desktop PC, 802.11g and 802.11b wireless routers, and 802.11g and 802.11b laptop cards. Read
BargainPDA got to play with the new Treo 600 for a half hour the other day, declaring that it is going to be the smartphone to beat this fall. The only things they don’t like about the Treo 600 are that it doesn’t have Bluetooth and that there’s no protective cover for the lens of…
First it was that fuel cell that could be powered by white wine, now it’s a fuel cell made by a company called Millennium Cell that uses borax, one of the main ingredients in laundry detergent, as its source of energy. Their prototype fuel cell is about the same size as the batteries used in…
From Sony, an unusual gadget that looks like it’s a portable TV that comes with TiVo-like video recording software and a Memory Stick DUO slot so you can recording shows as MPEG-4 files and watch them later. The Mobile AV Viewer MSV-A1, which has a 2.5-inch LCD screen and can also double as JPEG picture…
We really want to try this out: a new kit for taking 3D photographs with any digital camera. The Photo3-D 303 attaches to the front of a camera using its tripod socket and lets you create “stereo-pairs” of images, which are then merged together to make 3D photos using Photo3-D’s Mixer software. You still have…
A couple of new MP3 players from Creative. The Nomad MuVo2 uses the same tiny 1-inch, 1.5GB hard drive from Cornice that has also turned up in the Rio Nitrus and the HDD060 from Philips, and has USB 2.0 for file transfer. It’s set to retail for $70 less than the Nitrus ($229 vs. $299),…
New water resistant digital camera from Pentax. The 3.2 megapixel Optio 33WR, which looks a bit like a Minolta Dimage, can’t be operated underwater (just in the rain or snow), has a 2.8x optical zoom lens, and at 3.2 x 3.0 x 1.2 inches in size, is pretty small. Read
It’s not quite as exciting as KiSS Technology’s WiFi plasma TV, but Toshiba is adding Ethernet ports to four of its flat-panel displays: a 42-inch plasma (pictured at right), and 37-inch, 32-inch, and 26-inch LCDs. The sets will Web browsers for accessing the Internet, Firewire ports, and slots for viewing digital photos stored on SmartMedia,…
A few WiFi TVs have come out in Japan, mainly small LCDs from Sony and Sharp that are meant to be easily moved around the house, but KiSS Technology, a small Danish electronics company that continues to amaze us with every new product they put out (something we don’t think we’ve ever said about anybody),…
We first reported on this way back in February, and it looks like Sony Ericsson will finally come out with the Z1010, its first 3G cellphone, sometime very early next year. The Z1010, will have two built-in digital cameras (one for video conferencing, one for taking still pictures), a 65,000 color display, and the ability…
The Media Center Edition of Windows XP, which among other things lets you record and watch TV shows like a TiVo, hasn’t exactly taken off yet, but Sony and Dell are both expected to come out with PCs running the operating system later this fall. Actually, it’ll probably be the updated version of Windows XP…